Longform links: expensive promises
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
19 hours ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- An excerpt from “Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World” by Katherine Dunn. (washingtonpost.com)
- Tyler Cowen talks with Joel Mokyr, author of “Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000.” (conversationswithtyler.com)
- An excerpt from “A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness” by Michael Pollan. (laphamsquarterly.org)
- A Q&A with Jake Johnson author of “Unstaged Grief: Musicals and Mourning in Midcentury America.” (daily.jstor.org)
AI
- Cameron Armstrong, “The frontier labs increasingly seek the privilege and power of a utility without accepting the public obligations that come along with it.” (wysr.xyz)
- What brings the AI build out to a halt? (groundbrkr.com)
Medicine
- Is AI going to take over the job of writing doctor’s notes? (nytimes.com)
- On the history of the random controlled trial and why big data is the modern equivalent. (asteriskmag.substack.com)
Environment
- Global warming is just one sign of climate change. (bloomberg.com)
- Why carbon capture won’t work at scale. (projects.propublica.org)
- Who bears the costs of higher commercial property insurance? (brookings.edu)
Europe
- How Europe grew tired of placating Trump. (wsj.com)
- Europe now recognizes that it needs to handle its own defense. (giftarticle.ft.com)
Society
- It’s getting harder (and more expensive) to have fun in America. (bloomberg.com)
- Costco’s ($COST) $1.50 hot dog is still the best deal in America. (theringer.com)
History
- How England in the 1860s learned to live without American cotton. (engelsbergideas.com)
- How Amsterdam invented the fire department. (worksinprogress.co)
Longreads
- An in-depth look at how a financial scam worked. (wsj.com)
- Is it harder today for a company to stay ‘invisible’? (colossus.com)
- Why the U.S. still can’t make nitrile gloves. (bloomberg.com)
- Canadian PM Mark Carney has been thrust into a global role he didn’t anticipate. (wsj.com)
- The food truck mafia around the National Mall is brutal. (washingtonian.com)
- A history of the screwworm. (construction-physics.com)
- New generations are becoming less literate. (theatlantic.com)
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